National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA 23337

K -- K--BLACK BRANT SUPPORT SERVICES SOL RFP5-09980 DUE 010397 POC K. Jay Savage, Contract Specialist, 804/824-1276/Contracting Officer, Richard M. Swanson, 804/824-1426. Engineering and Field Support Services for Black Brant Sounding Rockets. This is a notice of intent to issue Request For Proposal (RFP)5-09980/608 on a noncompetitive basis in accordance with 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1)--''Only One Responsible Source'', to the Canadian Commercial Corporation, Ottawa, Canada KIA OS5 for 100% subcontracting to Bristol Aerospace Limited, Winnipeg, Canada. This contract will extend contract NAS5-31120 which provides for engineering and field support services. This planned procurement includes 9,550 (plus or minus 10%) productive man hours for the basic period, and four additional quarterly (three months each) option periods, each of which will include 2,595 (plus or minus 10%) productive man hours. The performance of these services involves the modification and rehabilitation of rocket motors, rocket vehicles, recovery systems, payload hardware, and associated ground support equipment for the Black Brant family of sounding rockets. Only Bristol Aerospace Limited has the combined knowledge and experience peculiar to this area, because they are the sole manufacturers of the Black Brant Systems and subsequently have the drawings, personnel, procedures, and established manufacturing capabilities to quickly respond to a variety of needs associated with the required support. Since these services apply to all of the Black Brant vehicles and their associated hardware which were developed by Bristol and are proprietary to that company, the engineering drawings, specifications, procedures, and processes which bear heavily on the successful application of the required services are not available. Any firms desiring consideration are requested to fully identify their capabilities to provide these services within 15 days of publication of this synopsis to the GSFC/Wallops Flight Facility and individual listed above. See Note(s): 12, 22 Collect calls not accepted. Electronic versions of the documents will be provided on the World Wide Web at http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/procure.htm, and by anonymous ftp to genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/web/solicita. (0331)

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